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What To Do This Weekend

This weekend, The 41st annual Holiday Home Tour takes place in Old Louisville, a national historic preservation district featuring the largest collection of Victorian architecture in the country. Step back in time and enjoy an authentic Victorian Tea or a free bourbon tasting.You can also check out a magic show, listen to beautiful holiday music, eat breakfast with Santa, see a play, and more.Take a look at our suggestions below:Surround yourself with the magic, comedy, and music of Adam Trent, the breakout star of the world’s best-selling magic show The Illusionists. The show is produced [...]

By |2018-07-02T15:29:46-04:00November 30, 2017|Old Weekend Posts|

The Transition to a New Place

By Carrie VittitoeOnce a loved one has decided to move to a retirement community and selected the one to call home, the hard work of “rightsizing” begins. This is the process of going through the house and belongings to find what will work in one’s new home and lifestyle. The process can be physically and emotionally grueling, but taking some of the following ideas into consideration will make the process feel much more manageable.Selecting Your Living SpaceEven if the retirement community has been decided upon, selecting the right room or apartment within the community can [...]

By |2017-11-29T20:30:00-05:00November 29, 2017|Caregiving|

“Imagine a Sharpie [marker]. I had a tiny Sharpie dot on the back of my leg that was black.”

By Ashli FindleyDeanna with her grandsons Luke, 4 and Levi, 4 months in Community Park in New Albany. Photos by Patti HartogNot leaving anything to chance, Deanna Watts, 52 at the time, went to her doctor to have the 1.1 millimeter, mole-like growth inspected and eventually removed; its testing revealed she had melanoma.That was nearly four years ago.Today, Deanna is beating stage four melanoma. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer because it has the ability to spread to other parts of the body. In Deanna’s case, it spread to a rib bone and [...]

By |2017-11-28T09:30:00-05:00November 28, 2017|Health Battle|

Zap Your Spider Veins

By Tiffany White Post Sponsored by Clark Memorial Hospital Vein Center Marla Beeler, MSN, FNP, APRN Photos by Melissa DonaldConcealing your spider veins may be a pain, but permanently removing them is simple and painless. Marla Beeler, MSN, FNP, APRN with the Clark Physician Group Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Center, utilizes a vein removal treatment called sclerotherapy on her clients. Using a small gauge needle, Beeler injects asclera, a sclerosing agent, into the spider veins, which scars the vein better than saline. “The vein doesn’t have the reaction to saline, because saline is like saltwater. It is less [...]

By |2018-06-21T16:51:15-04:00November 27, 2017|Past Sponsored|
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